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Spanish economy 30th January 2014

Spain’s Growth Accelerates, Job Creation Not Quite Yet

MADRID | By  The Corner Team | Spain’s GDP expanded 0.3 percent in the quarter ended Dec. 31 from the previous three months. For the first time since 2011, the euro region’s fourth largest economy’s growth increased for a second straight quarter, according to official estimates. Market makers are underlying their faith on this new-found economic momentum, and their trust comes as fresh air for the government, who predicted a faster rate recoverty than initially expected. Still, job creation needs to pick up from a depressing 26%.

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Markets 18th January 2014

China Wants to Grow ‘Reasonably’

China (which grew by 7.7% in 4Q13) wants to pursue a very different strategy in 2014, setting “reasonable growth” as its macroeconomic goal, meaning by that a rate that will support the country’s economic restructuring and upgrading. But such a technical description fails to meet society’s real needs and achievements, and so new alternative models are booming.

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In Europe 13th December 2013

Europe: Clouds are slowly lifting

LONDON | By Barclays analysts | We expect Europe to experience a long period of moderate economic growth, coupled with very low inflation: for the EU28, GDP should grow 1.5% in 2014 and accelerate to 1.7% in 2015, while inflation should bottom at 1.2% in 2014 before edging up slightly, to 1.4%, in 2015.

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In Europe 3rd December 2013

“Spain’s Growth Averaged 2.5% a Year For the Last 3 Decades”

MADRID | By Jaime Santisteban at The Corner TV | Economic growth in Spain is still weak and there is a risk the EU deficit goal could be overshot as both the public debt and the unemployment rate are too high. We discuss the current outlook and necessary reforms with Chairman of The Corner and former head of the Madrid Press Association Fernando G. Urbaneja.

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Markets 20th November 2013

Getting China’s Challenges Right

What really makes China anxious about reforms is not a fall on exports, but it’s incapability to continue absorbing the expensive investments that for years triggered miraculous growth. Could be China making the same mistakes than in 2008? Could the country be falling into the investment trap again? Among many other issues, the Central Committee of the Communist Party agreed on markets playing a greater role in allocating resources. This and other decisions suggested a less interventionist model where the private sector should have a greater role. The new leadership doesn’t have many options left.

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Markets 1st October 2013

China growing hungry

Iris Mir | During the last decade China’s food  imports grew by 21% a year.  The country is running out of arable land where to farm basic food like grains and cereals or where to grow its cattle. So it’s going abroad to acquire millions of hectares of land from other countries.

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Markets 11th September 2013

China’s New Experiment: Financial Equality

Iris Mir | China starts a new round of economic experimentation. Shanghai is set to become the new engine of growth with a China’s first Free Trade Zone (FTZ). The goal is to attract foreign investment by testing new deregulation rules that should give foreign companies greater flexibility. But urgent reforms in other areas are a must in order to transform the rise of the income of Chinese households into real purchasing power.

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Markets 12th July 2013

China, free fall?

Iris Mir | By mid-June the National Audit Office of China released a report unexpectedly detailing the debts of 36 local governments. It unveiled the chilling figure of 3.3 trillion dollar in debt, by the end of 2012. A 13% higher than in 2010. Furthermore, the lack of stimulus investment plans is fuelling scepticism among those who expected the Asian dragon to keep the world economy afloat. Mostly because the priority for China now is to reorient its model of growth with ambitious programs like the new Co2 emissions exchange.